Politics

These are the headlines on four consecutive posts currently up at Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire: SurveyUSA: Clinton Pulls Closer in North Carolina Howey-Gauge Poll: Deadlocked in Indiana PPP Poll: Clinton Leads in Indiana Rasmussen: Obama Keeps Big Lead in North Carolina And some of you wonder why I continue to question media’s over-reliance on polls […]

We all know politicians have this rare inability to actually ‘fess up to bloops and blunders (as well as a built-in inability to speak the words “I am sorry”), but this, I think, tops anything I’ve ever heard. It’s from CBC. At one point on Thursday, Conservative Senator David Angus, who is the committee’s chair, […]

I’ve written somewhat disparagingly about polls and the media’s over-reliance on them as “news.” These three headlines (a bit of detail in brackets), all from today at Teagan Goddard’s Political Newswire, don’t deal directly with the media, but they do give you a pretty good idea of why I feel that way: IA Poll: Clinton […]

It’s not traditional journalism: no balance, some opinion, no overarching narrative. But it makes for a good read. The posts are short and they show what you can do by working the edges of the “big story.”

The Online Journalism Review has an interesting article on “watchblogs” — citizen bloggers who have adopted reporters covering the U.S. elections and dissecting their reporting in search of bias, bad reporting, etc. Some of these folks are driven by ideology; some — such as the Columbia Journalism Review’s Campaign Desk – are driven by a […]

A blog on journalism, media-related matters and some occasional personal stuff, by Mark Hamilton, a journalism instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, in the suburbs of Vancouver, B.C. You can email me or follow me on Twitter.